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Published on June 15, 2012
CHINESE OFFICIALS APOLOGISE TO WOMAN IN FORCED ABORTION
- City officials in China have apologised to a woman who was forced to have an abortion and suspended three people responsible, state media reports, according to BBC. This came after photos showing a foetus and the mother, Feng Jiamei, shocked web users.
She was made to undergo the procedure in Shaanxi province in the seventh month of pregnancy, local officials said after investigating. Chinese law clearly prohibits abortions beyond six months.
The Ankang city government said it decided to suspend three officials in Zhenping county following initial investigations. It also urged the county government to conduct a thorough review of its family planning operations, said Xinhua news. On Thursday night, the city officials apologised to Ms Feng, 27, and her family, the report said.
She was ''forced to terminate her pregnancy'' at a hospital in Zhenping on 2 June, said Xinhua. Officials in Zhenping county claimed she agreed to the abortion because she was not allowed to have a second child by law. She already has a daughter, born in 2007. But activists said she was forced into the abortion as she could not pay the fine for having a second child.
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Today in Armenian history- 1826 Sultan Mahmud the Second orders the killing of the Janissaries in Constantinople and later, in the provinces.
- 1889 Birth of Yervand Kochar (painter, architect). He died in 1979.
- 1906 Opening of the Second Congress of Armenian Teachers in Tbilissi (Georgia). It founded the Teachers' Union.
- 1915 The Turkish government hangs 21 leaders of the Hnchak Party in Constantinople's Bayazet square.
- 1927 Death of commander Moorad Petrosian (Kronqtsi).
- 1960 Meeting of Communist Work Brigades and "Shock Labor Forces" in Yerevan.
- 1988 The Supreme Soviet of Soviet Armenia approves the 1988 02 20 petition by the Autonomous Region of Nagorno Gharabagh to rejoin Armenia and asks the Soviet Government to rule positively in this case.
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